Otto Carbajal
Content Engineer
Graphic Designer
Otto Carbajal
Content Engineer
Graphic Designer
Establish flexible plan
Account for unknowns
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Creative
Focused
Teammate
Learning by doing Prepares me to anticipate & respond to the unexpected.
With over 20 years expertise in print graphic design, hands-on experience in content engineering with varying levels of skill in digital design, I use tools for both platforms to deliver results. I handle relationships with cross-functional content teams (developers and authors) to seek reusable ways to automate and publish content for digital platforms & print publications and provide workflow solutions for managing content while ensuring brand identity.
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GRAPHIC DESIGNER
My 20+ years experience as graphic designer helps create user-center experiences, proficient graphic and instructional design, and with meticulous attention to detail conceptualize, develop, and produce digital designs. I ensure brand alignment between program components on all platforms. I work up prototypes in InDesign, construct InDesign XML templates, reformat XML source code for InDesign import (tag to style field mapping). I am able to test & revise document type definitions (DTD) and use Adobe InDesign GREPS (basic level).CONTENT ENGINEER
I help author many processes and procedures for editorial teams, work with development teams discovering, assessing, and delivering content workflows (print-to-digital & digital-only), and provide solutions for management of digital assets. I implement reusable automated ways to publish digital content for application developers from print tools like Adobe InDesign. I am knowledgeable in extracting metadata from print for digital apps in development and capable of understanding complex technical project details to communicate them simply to non-technical audiences.As Graphic Designer-Content Engineer, I applied my skillset in the following ways:
✅ Use XPath with InDesign Styles to create XML structured templates
✅ Define patterns in InDesign content with XML rules; See Demos.
✅ Validate structured XML for print & digital app consumption using Entity Relation Diagrams
✅ Build data models for CMS databases export as XML for InDesign; See Directus CMS.
✅ Constructed an authoring framework in Oxygen XML; See Demos.
✅ Extracted metadata from InDesign files for WoodWing.
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BASIC
DITA & DITA Maps
Aquia DAM (Widen)
XPath
Alfresco
Powerpoint
Excel
GitHub
Keynote
MuralINTERMEDIATE
Agile
Accessibility
Confluence
HTML & CSS
Data Model
Directus CMS
JIRA
Miro
Notion
Oxygen XML Editor
XML & WoodWingADVANCED
Adobe CS
InDesign
Photoshop
Illustrator
Brand Identity
Design
Logos
Production
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CLIENTS
• HMH
• SCHOLASTIC
• AERDF
• BGCA
• AMPLIFY
• TRIUMPH LEARNING
• BEARPORT PUB
• CURRICULUM ASSOC
• GIRLS INC DC
• EVCPORTFOLIO
COLLECTION of projects in print and in digital design that include logos, brand identity, and visual templates and guidelines I have developed over the years. In each task, I retouched images, vector files, psds files, & customized html & css, making use of script libraries. Projects ranged from ideation to templates, and experiments using tools for professional development.